She had one eye, perhaps, on the sewing outfit, but both hands and the other eye were directed toward the soap.

She knew what it was meant for.

The meaning of cleanliness had dawned upon her--a sudden ambition to be attractive.
The last time that all the members of the expedition ate together was at the four o'clock dinner on December 29, for that evening Marvin, the captain, and their parties started for the Greenland coast; and when we met together at the ship after my return from the Pole there was one who was not with us--one who would never again be with us.
Ross Marvin was, next to Captain Bartlett, the most valuable man in the party.

Whenever the captain was not in the field, Marvin took command of the work, and on him devolved the sometimes onerous, sometimes amusing labor of breaking in the new members.

During the latter part of the former expedition in the _Roosevelt_, Marvin had grasped more fully than any other man the underlying, fundamental principles of the work.
He and I together had planned the details of the new method of advance and relay parties.